Ptolemaic Period (jan 1, 332 BC – jan 1, 30 BC)
Description:
1. Alexander the Great conquers Egypt and his general, Ptolemy, founds a dynasty.2. Cleopatra dies in 30 BCE and Egypt becomes a province of the Roman Empire
3. Colossal statues grace temple pylons along with sphinxes
4. New type of voluptuousness in female forms
5. High, smoothly rounded and heavily-modelled relief styles
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Date:
jan 1, 332 BC
jan 1, 30 BC
~ 302 years